At the same time, after Xuan Ze sent out the outline of the screenplay, he took out a notebook his mother had left behind in his study, written in remembrance of his father.
His mother had studied in France in her early years, embodying the sentimentality of a literary youth, merging Eastern gentleness with Western elegance within herself, living a life of distinctive elegance.
When his father passed away, he was still young, and he once asked his mother if she wasn't saddened by his death.
The clearest memory he had was when his mother said, "Xuan Ze, it was not easy for your father and me to meet, to stay together, or to have the shallow fate we did, amidst countless hardships, but I promised him, I would live happily, at any time."
At that time, he understood his mother a bit more, as she was the one who suffered the most.
This was also why, after so many years, he still hadn't found someone suitable to play the role of his mother, hence he kept refining the screenplay.